Article Review #1: Perceived Security Risks and Cybersecurity Compliance Attitude: Role of Personality Traits and Cybersecurity Behavior
https://cybercrimejournal.com/menuscript/index.php/cybercrimejournal/article/view/438/124
This article is about the big five personality traits and how they relate to cybersecurity behavior such as compliance.
It is related to the principles of the social sciences because the big five personality traits are a social science concept. The topic is also specifically about human behavior and how personality impacts behaviors, such as neuroticism and risk.
In the article, quantitative research is used to view the impact of the Big Five on cybersecurity behavior towards compliance. The research question appears to be concerning what the impact of the big five personality traits is on compliance. The independent variable would be the personality traits and the dependent variable would be compliance or the level of compliance. This is because the article suggests that different personality traits affect compliance, thus depending on which trait(s) a person exhibits they would have different levels of compliance and different behaviors within cybersecurity.
The researchers studied employees in different programs within different departments to create diversity and ensure substantial and effective research as well as intentional sampling to ensure that participants were properly immersed in their departments and understand policies. They assessed the big five as well as the cybersecurity traits based on standardized items adopted from other studies. They also used software due to the model structures different constructs including checking validity and consistency of results and their models, and concepts of mediation and moderation, and other constructs.
The powerpoints relate to the article because the powerpoints not only include information about the big five personality traits but they go into depth about the specific traits. The article does not specify anything about marginalized groups, rather it is generalized information to the big five and cybersecurity behaviors in companies and across departments. The data is not across every industry, so there could be circumstances where the study would not apply and there could be excluded personality traits because personality is dynamic. The study contributes to society because it establishes the impacts of the big fiver personality traits on the social science of cybersecurity. This study emphasizes the traits importance as well as the importance of psychology based frameworks and selecting personality traits in employees or using these traits to inform policy and risk awareness to minimize risk.
This article is about the big five personality traits and their influence on compliance in cybersecurity. The study used quantitative research, studying individuals from multiple areas within companies in order to gain insight on the impact of the big five personality traits on compliance. The result is that the big five do have an impact on compliance and that this should be taken into account within companies to influence procedures in cybersecurity to minimize risk.